The Marion County jail will no longer hold people detained for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement beyond 48 hours after it reached capacity Sunday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said.
The jail has space to hold around 2,900 people but has a financial limit set by the Indianapolis City-County Council that caps its capacity at 2,400 people, said Sheriff Kerry Forestal, and it costs the jail $82 per day to hold a person.
He said around 175 people convicted of state crimes and held at the Adult Detention Center in Indianapolis have not yet been transferred to Indiana Department of Correction facilities. This has caused the jail to exceed its financial limit and resulted in a budgetary shortfall of about $2.7 million per year, because IDOC only reimburses the office with $42 per person per day, Forestal said…